[PATCH 1/1] Uncomment PCI access functions inside server

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at freedesktop.org
Sun May 3 17:48:19 PDT 2009


Hi,

Jesse Barnes escreveu:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:33:08 -0300
> Tiago Vignatti <vignatti at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> 
>> This reintroduces secondary cards initialization.
>>
>> We're currently living in a completely mess regarding the resources
>> access control. Some accesses are done by libpciaccess, other by Xorg
>> and other simply don't exist yet (e.g. arbitration of legacy VGA). We
>> can discuss about a beautiful redesign later. In this moment I just
>> want to put back the multiple card, multiple head functionality. The
>> first step is to reintroduce secondary cards initialization. I'll
>> keep the work.
>>
>> PS.: AFAIK the currently implementation of int10's x86emu backend is
>> not working to POST secondary cards (BUG). I POSTed using vm86
>> instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <vignatti at freedesktop.org>
>> ---
>>   hw/xfree86/common/xf86pciBus.c |   33
>> --------------------------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+),
> 
> Can we create a new define for these and put this code under that?

Are you saying to put these functions inside the pci library? I'm not 
sure if I got you corretly. Can you be more specific, Jesse?


> There are a few other functions we can probably disable in a
> non-secondary config (e.g. some of the other resource reservation
> stuff) as well, and if we had a new define we could enable/disable them
> as well.

Anyway, I'm sending another patch in some minutes. Please, consider it 
instead this one.


Cheers,

                     Tiago


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